Reeder Custom Guns - Bang! Bang! Pop!

This morning I decided to shoot some reloads in my Ruger SRH 480. I got two shots off before I heard the dreaded POP.

Sure enough, a squib load. I have a 325 grain XTP bullet stuck about one inch into the barrel.

Right now I have the revolver upright with the barrel filled with Hoppes. I figure it will help with removing the bullet.

I kind of wished it was a cast bullet as they seem easier to remove.

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using .416 gc on a bas made for the older thin checks-- it opens up the neck some more so there is a pop and a jump not boom.. when I use a cast boolit cut for .416 gc it is all good..so why yours just interested

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Just a lot of unburnt powder.

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bad primer.

I’ve had that problem with 296 if I didn’t have enough powder in the case. The primer goes off but the powder doesn’t fully burn. Was the powder a yellow black color?

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revolver loads are with 296 and I try to have a lightly compressed load on all of them. Back many years ago when Lee Jurras had his Super Vel ammo out he used a lot of 296 and he told me to always have the powder charge, if possible, lightly compressed. Never leave an air pocket in there or you get a misfire with a partial burn with the remaining powder a yellow clump with a bad smell to it.

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and push the bullet into the barrel for about the length of the bullet-- was a neck tension problem brought on by the .416 gc on the lyman thin cut base---or it seems that way to me and yes they were sized .410--=it only went away when I changed gc or a different cast bullet

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First, a bad primer
2nd..a primer not hot enough. 296 requires a hot magnum primer
3. too light a load. Always fill the case as near to the base of the bullet as you can. A lightly compressed load is always best with 296 or H-110 and a magnum primer.

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culprit.

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should be pretty close to a full case of powder, and that is what 296 does best, especially with a magnum primer.

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Bang! Bang! Pop!

do you know why?I gave a few in my .410 GNR --I traced it t

I believe a bad primer. Didn't go off.

Magnum primer or standard?

Federal Magnum Match

Did it have a good firing pin lick on the primer?

Yes. Nice and deep. It must have been a

What was your powder charge?

probably 90% of my hunting handgun

Yes. I .did load it one grain under max

Were you using 4227?

WW 296

mine would leave the powder in like a column

it could have been one of 3 things

I think the one grain under max load may be the

it shouldn't be. One grain under listed max